Jeremy Tammik blogging on the Revit API

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December 10, 2011

I had an absolutely magical experience in Israel before leaving Tel Aviv Thursday afternoon. Among many others at the developer conference on Wednesday, we met with Dima Brickmann of Omnitech, and he suggested going for a short visit to Jerusalem before returning to the airport, which is located between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Partha and I decided to join him. Dima has a very special relationship with the city and a deep philosophical and photographical view of it, so he...
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November 26, 2011

I arrived safely in Las Vegas after a 12:40 hour flight to Los Angeles, 3:30 hour wait, und another flight of 1:05 hours. Pretty crazy. I had a headache after that, but not too bad, and I slept well out in the desert. Just like in previous years (08, 09, 09b, 10), my daytime jetlag therapy consists of climbing in Red Rock, this time with Sergio Colombo again, whom I first met and climbed with in 2008. We did the...
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October 12, 2011

A long time ago, in the far distant past, before the advent of the Family API, Revit API developers and family content creators were two entirely separate camps with their own secret arts and magic charms. Since then, we have been given programmatic access to the family creation functionality, and the synergy in the union of these two camps is growing. This makes it all the more important for any developer to have an in-depth understanding of the family creation...
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September 01, 2011

Two new interesting BIM projects are now available on Autodesk Labs: Project Spark Project Spark is a technology preview of a simplified 3D building information modelling (BIM) solution. It enables building professionals to create designs efficiently with real-world building objects, produce more reliable documentation faster, and share files with consultants using Revit or AutoCAD-based products. It does not support conceptual design, analysis, rendering, advanced collaboration, and, unfortunately for us developers, API. Project Spark is intended to help users who are...
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